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Biography/History

Harry Monroe Caudill

During his life of sixty-eight years, Harry Caudill played active roles in local, state, and national arenas. A lawyer by profession, he practiced in his native Letcher County for twenty-eight years after receiving his law degree from the University of Kentucky in 1948 and also served as President of the Letcher County Bar Association. As a politician, he completed three two-year terms (elected in 1953, 1955, and 1959) in the Kentucky House of Representatives, during which he helped produce a stinging report on the status of Kentucky education and helped advocate better strip-mining control laws. In addition, as an educator, he taught Appalachian history for eight years in the University of Kentucky's history department. Finally, he served his country during WWII in North Africa and Italy, where he received a leg injury that plagued him for the rest of his life.

However, Caudill was best known nationally for his role as a writer-of about 80 newspaper essays, 50 odd magazine articles, more than 120 lectures and speeches, and 10 books-who drew attention to the social, economic, and environmental problems the coal industry had caused in his region, earning him the moniker "Upton Sinclair of the coal fields." He wanted the nation to develop a more objective understanding of Appalachia along with a new land ethic.

Caudill, who spent much of his life preoccupied with such public and conservation problems, was somewhat unique in his criticism and activism because he was produced by the situations he wrote about. Born on May 3, 1922, on Long Branch in Letcher County, this tireless regional advocate was among the sixth generation of the Caudill family in the Whitesburg, Kentucky area. (James Caudill, his great-grandfather, built a cabin in Letcher County, near the headwaters of the Kentucky River, around 1792.)

His interest in socio-political issues stemmed from spending many of his boyhood days in the courthouse of his "dear old Letcherous County," where his father, a disabled former miner, was clerk and actively participated in many political campaigns. Add this to a natural story-telling ability inherited from his rich mountain culture, and the result was a book that opened the eyes of officials in Washington and people from around the nation:
Night Comes to the Cumberlands, published in 1963. Caudill became the "voice" of Appalachia almost overnight, and, in a writing career that spanned nearly thirty years, he made people think-about the poverty in Appalachia, about the ravages of strip-mining, about a region historically plundered and neglected by its nation.

Caudill was ably supported by his wife, Anne Frye Caudill of Cynthiana, Kentucky-with whom he fathered three children: James, Diana, and Harry Frye and who not only closely assisted him in his research and writing but also coordinated his public appearances and numerous tours of the region given to journalists and conservationists. Their partnership resulted in the writing of several additional books and numerous articles and lectures which communicated Caudill's visionary ideas.

He wanted everyone in and outside of Appalachia to feel the urgency of the realization that haunted him: the knowledge of how important it was for the region to get out from under the shadow of coal and stand on its own. He recommended forming a "Southern Mountain Authority" modeled on the Tennessee Valley Authority (which he saw as a good model in its early years despite its later faults); he successfully enlisted the aid of many nationally prominent organizations, including the National Audubon Society and the Sierra Club, in the fight against strip mining, and he acted as liaison and mediator for local anti-strip mining groups like the Pike County Citizens Association and the Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People.

After years of such unflagging advocacy, Caudill was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He died by his own hands on November 29, 1990, on his much-loved Whitesburg homestead.

Scope and Content

The University of Kentucky Library Special Collections received the gift of Anne and Harry Caudills' papers and photographs over a period of three years, from May of 1988 to November of 1990.

Filling over one hundred archival boxes, each holding approximately one-half cubic foot and spanning over forty years, from the late 1940s to 1990, it is a rich archive. The papers illuminate the Caudills' own work in various arenas, such as the environment and development, but also document, for example, the anti-strip mining work of Save Our Kentucky (SOK) and the development theories laid out by the Congress for Appalachian Development (CAD).

The subject files, probably the meatiest part for most researchers and comprising about 30% of the collection, contain correspondence and clippings arranged topically, then chronologically. Broad areas include "Development in Appalachia," "Education," "Environment," "Politics," and "War on Poverty." Each category is further broken down into more specific groupings. For example, the subject "Environment" is separated into such sub-divisions as "Red River Gorge Dam," "Lilley's Woods," "Strip Mining," and "White House Conference on Natural Beauty."

Another important part of the collection is the "Correspondence" section and, like the subject files, it is organized topically, then chronologically. Here, a researcher can examine the breadth of Caudill's influence on shaping people's definitions of Appalachia and Appalachians as well as on the molding of government policy at both the federal and state levels. In-coming and out-going correspondence about
Night Comes to the Cumberlands alone fills five boxes and spans from publication date in 1963 to 2005. The sheer volume of the letters is remarkable, as is the diversity of people who read and were influenced by the book--from government officials to students living out West.

The collection does include more standard archival fare: a complete run of Caudill's published articles and manuscripts of much of his writing. Yet, amongst these, there are some not-so-usual items, such as manuscripts of his government testimonies and speeches and lectures delivered throughout the country.

Finally, the collection contains reviews of Caudill's books; biographical materials; a box of papers illustrating his involvement in a number of documentary films and radio and television programs; and a fascinating compilation of articles/sources Caudill consulted in his own research.

Subjects

Caudill, Anne F.

Caudill, Harry M., 1922-1990.

Coal mines and mining--Appalachian Region--History.

Coal mines and mining--Economic aspects--Appalachian Region.

Coal mines and mining--Economic aspects--Kentucky.

Coal mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Appalachian Region.

Coal mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Kentucky.

Coal mines and mining--Kentucky--History.

Coal mines and mining--Social aspects--Appalachian Region.

Coal mines and mining--Social aspects--Kentucky.

Community development--Appalachian Region.

Community development--Kentucky.

Poverty--Appalachian Region

Poverty--Kentucky.

Strip mining--Environmental aspects--Kentucky.

User Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky.

Related Material

The accompanying photograph collection (PA91M2) is small but contains some pieces worth noting. Of particular interest are the excellent War on Poverty photographs, many of which are professional quality prints taken by photojournalists for national publications who traveled to the Letcher Co. area. The pictures documenting the environmental degradation caused by strip mining in eastern Kentucky in the 1960s are also worth notice.

The Caudills gave materials to other libraries and archives: Appalshop holds some audio tapes of radio interviews with Caudill; Northern Kentucky University received much of his and Anne's excellent book collection on Kentucky and Appalachian history, literature, and sociology; and Berea College has many of his book manuscripts.

"Caudill's Works Are Filled With Inaccuracies, Hazard Writer Says."
Lexington Herald-Leader, April 19, 1981 [reprint of "The 'Other' Harry Caudill: A Critique," in
Kentucky Coal Journal, April 1981 and includes a "Counterpoint" by Caudill]

"Appalachia: Tracking the Character of a People Through the Hills" and "Appalachia 's Progressive Destination" by Ron Larson.
Roanoke Times & World Report, March 28, 1982 and April 4, 1982 [from an interview done in December 1981]

[Box: 2, Folder: 15]

"Harry Caudill and the Burden of Mountain Liberalism" by Ronald D. Eller.
Proceedings of the 5th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, 1982 [manuscript and revised published version]

[Box: 2, Folder: 16]

"Night Comes to the Cumberlands. Twenty Years After and Twenty Years Ahead" by William T. Cornett.
Troublesome Creek Times, June 30, 1982

"Ups and Downs: Caudill Was Right; A Vote For Tax Equity."
Lexington Herald-Leader, May 28, 1994

[Box: 2, Folder: 34]

ii AWARDS AND HONORS

i General

May 7, 1937-June 14, 1970

[Box: 3, Folder: 1]

January 18, 1971-March 6, 1979

[Box: 3, Folder: 2]

March 20, 1980-August 1996; N.d

[Box: 3, Folder: 3]

ii Eastern Kentucky University Honorary Degree

Scope and Content Note:

The president and the faculty senate of Eastern Kentucky University nominated Caudill for an honorary doctorate degree in 1970. But Eastern's board of regents rejected the recommendation when two members on the board objected to awarding Caudill on grounds that he was too controversial.

June 6, 1970-July 6, 1970; N.d

[Box: 3, Folder: 4]

iii The "Roast", October 30, 1986

Scope and Content Note:

Caudill was honored at a "Banquet and Roast" on October 30, 1986 at the University of Kentucky. This was part of the program at the "On the Land and Economy of Appalachia" conference sponsored by the University's Appalachian Center. The occasion was also intended to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the writing of
Night Comes to the Cumberlands. [Caudill's speech delivered at the banquet is filed with Manuscripts--Lectures and Speeches in Box 75, Folder 36.]

Letters of sympathy received by Anne Caudill. December 10, 1990-August 11, 1991

II SUBJECT FILES

i DEVELOPMENT IN APPALACHIA

i General

Scope and Content Note:

Correspondence and clippings concerning Caudill's interest in various possibilities for Appalachian economic development, including power development, appeals for expansion of national forests, and attempts to attract industry to the area.

August 14, 1958-December 19, 1963

[Box: 6, Folder: 1]

January 9, 1964-December 10, 1964

[Box: 6, Folder: 2]

January 25, 1965-November 24, 1966

[Box: 6, Folder: 3]

April 28, 1967-September 22, 1972

[Box: 6, Folder: 4]

August 15, 1973-December 7, 1979

[Box: 6, Folder: 5]

January 7, 1980-July 24, 1983

[Box: 6, Folder: 6]

February 16, 1984-November 14, 1988

[Box: 6, Folder: 7]

January 2, 1989-April 4, 1991

[Box: 6, Folder: 8]

ii Appalachian Regional Commission

Scope and Content Note:

Files include correspondence and clippings about the Area Redevelopment Act of 1961 which was passed to promote new opportunities in both rural and urban areas suffering from a high unemployment rate; the President's Appalachian Regional Commission (PARC), created by President Kennedy in 1963 to develop a plan of economic and social development for the Appalachian region; and the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) formed under President Johnson as a federal-state agency to continue PARC's work.

Mid 1961-April 29, 1964

[Box: 7, Folder: 1]

May 6, 1964-November 18, 1990; N d

[Box: 7, Folder: 2]

iii Common Heritage

Scope and Content Note:

A corporation on whose board of directors Caudill served. Supported by grants and membership drives, Common Heritage worked to reverse out-migration from eastern Kentucky. This was attempted by supplying lists of skilled migrants willing to return for employment to companies considering the location of plants in eastern Kentucky. The assurance of a skilled labor force was intended to act as an inducement.

October 5, 1971-March 1972; N.d

[Box: 7, Folder: 3]

iv Congress for Appalachian Development(CAD)

Scope and Content Note:

On September 17, 1966, Caudill and E.S. Fraley, a farmer from Bristol, Virginia, called a meeting of Appalachian residents interested in developing local resources. A steering committee meeting was held in Charleston, West Virginia, on October 15, 1966, and CAD was officially incorporated on November 25, 1966.

CAD advocated public utility districts (PUDS) modeled after those of Chelan County in Washington state. Kirby Billingsly, manager of the Chelan County PUD, was instrumental in providing information. Publicly owned power plants were to be built near the mouths of coal mines and the power produced would be sold across the eastern U.S. Industry would be attracted to the area and new towns would be formed. [For more on PUDS, see folders in the "Environment" section (Subject Files) on the Northern Plains Resource Council.]

Besides the Caudills, other prominent members of CAD included Senator Paul Kaufman (W.Va.), Gordon Ebersole, who devoted much of his time to CAD after his retirement from the Area Redevelopment Administration (Dept. of the Interior), and Lewis Smith, a Denver engineer, formerly with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

In addition to Caudill's publications, CAD was widely publicized in articles by John Fetterman, William Blizzard, Ben Franklin, and others. However, the large financial backing that was hoped for never materialized, even though appeals were made to foundations, celebrities (e g. Lawrence Welk), and labor unions like the United Mine Workers and the United Auto Workers. [For other related activities, see the folders in this section on Eastern Kentucky Public Power Development and Yankee-Dixie Power Association.]

July 8, 1963-September 21, 1966 [pre-CAD]

[Box: 7, Folder: 4]

October 15, 1966-January 31, 1967

[Box: 7, Folder: 5]

February 1, 1967-February 27, 1967

[Box: 7, Folder: 6]

March 1, 1967-March 31, 1967

[Box: 8, Folder: 1]

April 2, 1967-April 26, 1967

[Box: 8, Folder: 2]

May 1, 1967-May 31, 1967

[Box: 8, Folder: 3]

June 1, 1967-June 29, 1967

[Box: 8, Folder: 4]

July 3, 1967-September 28, 1967

[Box: 8, Folder: 5]

October 9, 1967-December 15, 1967

[Box: 8, Folder: 6]

January 2, 1968-October 15, 1968

[Box: 9, Folder: 1]

January 7, 1969-May 20, 1970

[Box: 9, Folder: 2]

February 1, 1971-March 22, 1990; N.d

[Box: 9, Folder: 3]

v Corporate Responsibility for Development

Scope and Content Note:

In August 1978, Caudill spoke to a Charleston, West Virginia, neighborhood meeting about the problems facing Appalachia. He called for the large corporations, especially those involved in coal, gas, and oil extraction, to return some of their wealth to the area for education and economic development. The speech was widely covered in the news media and received tremendous public response. Kentucky's Berea College was the site of several meetings between representatives of the coal industry, including Harry Laviers, Jr., then president of South East Coal Company and the Kentucky Coal Association, J. L. Jackson, president of Falcon Coal, Caudill, various educators, and others interested in a socioeconomic conference on Appalachia.

Caudill was particularly concerned about the large portion of Appalachian land and resources controlled by absentee ownership. George Atkins adopted Caudill's ideas on corporate responsibility in 1978 when he sought the Democratic nomination for governor of Kentucky. [See also the "Taxation" files, Box 31; e.g. if corporations failed to contribute voluntarily, Caudill advocated an increase in severance tax]

c. early 1970s-December 17, 1979

[Box: 9, Folder: 4]

December 22, 1980-November 28, 1990; N.d

[Box: 9, Folder: 5]

vi East Kentucky Economic Development and Job Creation Corporation

Scope and Content Note:

On April 29-30, 1988, over two hundred people attended an East Kentucky Leadership Conference held in Hazard, Kentucky, and sponsored by eastern Kentucky's Area Development Districts. Public officials attending included Dr. Grady Stumbo, Hazard mayor Bill Gorman, and Pike County Judge Paul Patton. The opening talk was given by U.S. Rep. Chris Perkins. The conference was organized by the "Knott County group," including former state Rep. Bill Weinberg, state Sen. Benny Ray Bailey, and Mike Mullins, director of the Hindman Settlement School. An Economic Summit was held in July 1989 for representatives of the twenty-two mountain counties; and, on October 8, 1989, approximately seventy-five mayors, county judge executives, legislators, and business leaders from the Economic Summit met in Prestonsburg to organize an East Kentucky Economic Development Commission. The primary purpose of this commission was the creation of jobs for eastern Kentuckians.

In 1990, the General Assembly created the East Kentucky Economic Development and Job Creation Corporation to serve forty-three counties in eastern Kentucky. Percy Elkins was named to coordinate the jobs program. A reception and dinner was held in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1990 for leaders of corporations involved in coal, oil, gas, utilities, railroads, banking, and manufacturing in order to raise $1.2 million to start a regional economic development fund.

April 29, 1988-August 20, 1991

vii Eastern Kentucky Housing

Scope and Content Note:

Includes clippings, correspondence, and proposals by various groups, such as the Council of the Southern Mountains, relating to possible solutions for housing problems.

August 23, 1966-January 18, 1979; N.d

[Box: 9, Folder: 7]

viii Eastern Kentucky Public Power Development

Scope and Content Note:

Includes correspondence and other information on groups and individuals interested in establishing a power generating plant in eastern Kentucky including Senator John Sherman Cooper (KY), Gordon Ebersole from the Department of the Interior, and the American Public Power Association. Appeals were made to Under Secretary of Commerce, Franklin D. Roosevelt., Jr., by Caudill, Stewart Udall, the Secretary of the Interior, and others for endorsement of the idea by the President's Appalachian Regional Commission(PARC). Roosevelt, however, did not recommend the plan. Caudill retained his interest in development of power plants with his involvement in the Congress for Appalachian Development and the Yankee-Dixie Power Association.

Includes documents about the Mountain Parkway and the Whitesburg by-pass. Caudill thought that improved roads would help stimulate the local economy.

1959-August 2, 1989

ix Junked Cars

Scope and Content Note:

May 11, 1966-May 27, 1966

[Box: 11, Folder: 2]

x Kentucky Appalachian Foundation (KAF)

Scope and Content Note:

Formed for the purpose of establishing and developing the cultural, educational, and economic needs of eastern Kentucky, organizers of the foundation included John Hall, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Ashland Oil, Inc.; G.B. Johnson, Chairman of the Board, First American Bank; Robert E. Matthews, President and Chief Operating Officer, Kentucky Power Company; and Dr. Morris Norfleet, President Emeritus, Morehead State University. More than seventy corporate officers were invited to a meeting in Ashland in January 1987 since KAF stressed business rather than political leadership. Each member was asked to pay $1000 in membership fees and serve on one of three task forces: education, quality of life, and economic development. Caudill served on the education task force. The file consists primarily of correspondence between Caudill and other members.

January 6, 1987-September 9, 1988

[Box: 11, Folder: 3]

xi Kentucky River Basin Steering Committee

Scope and Content Note:

This group, chaired by Scotty Baesler, mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, looked at various alternatives for the future of the Kentucky River as a water source for central Kentucky. Options considered included building "off site" reservoirs in eastern Kentucky, getting water from Louisville, and increasing the height of locks and dams already on the main stem of the Kentucky River. In the summer of 1989, the Steering Committee, the Kentucky River Task Force, and the Citizens Task Force on the Development of the Kentucky River traveled to Hazard to discuss various issues and concerns about the river with eastern Kentucky citizens, community leaders, and elected officials. The file contains Steering Committee correspondence and newspaper clippings about the Kentucky River's future including articles written by Caudill.

June 9, 1988-May 31, 1990

[Box: 11, Folder: 4]

xii Letcher County/Eastern Kentucky Trash Disposal

Scope and Content Note:

Many people, including Caudill, saw the trash-strewn highways, rivers, and creeks as detrimental to attracting industry to the region. The file contains correspondence with Malcolm Holliday, executive director of the Kentucky River Area Development District (KRADD) in 1972. The file documents focus on strict legislation passed by the Letcher County Fiscal Court in 1988. Articles by Caudill are also included.

November 27, 1969-August 20, 1989

[Box: 11, Folder: 5]

xiii Letcher County Planning Commission

Scope and Content Note:

The primary function was to prepare plans for the orderly growth of the towns of Jenkins and Fleming-Neon and Letcher County in general. Since Whitesburg had its own planning commission, it was not included.

June 16, 1970-December 1970; N.d

[Box: 11, Folder: 6]

xiv Migration

July 26, 1959-January 27 1991

[Box: 11, Folder: 7]

xv National Rural Housing Coalition

Scope and Content Note:

The Coalition held its first membership meeting on October 31, 1969, and formally announced its creation on February 7, 1970. Honorary chairmen were Senators George McGovern and Charles E. Goodell and Congressman John Conyers, Jr. The Coalition's intent was to increase awareness of the sub-standard housing of many rural people and to develop and support legislation for funding low-income housing programs in rural areas.

October 31, 1969-February 7, 1970; N.d

[Box: 11, Folder: 8]

xvi Project Two Thousand and Ten

Scope and Content Note:

This proposal for the economic development of Martin, Magoffin, Johnson, and Floyd counties, prepared by Gerald V. Banks, GUB Consulting, Elgin, Illinois, was a long-range plan for creating job facilities connected with the Big Sandy Regional Airport (then under development) as a regional transportation center.

Other suggestions included a recreation complex, a shopping mall, a training center for continuing adult education, a health care center, and an industrial park. The file contains Banks' correspondence with Caudill and the project proposal.

July 9, 1987-November 23, 1987

[Box: 11, Folder: 9]

xvii Scientists and Engineers for Appalachia

Scope and Content Note:

Caudill spoke at this group's first meeting on April 25, 1970, in Berea, Kentucky, and participated in some of their subsequent meetings. Officially incorporated on May 21, 1970, the group's aim was to provide discussions regarding advancements in science and technology for the enrichment of life in Appalachia. For this purpose, the SEA Bulletin began bimonthly publication on July 1, 1971. A volunteer consultant list of scientific and technological specialties was developed from their membership list.

April 25, 1970-October 4, 1972; N.d

[Box: 11, Folder: 10]

xviii Whitesburg/Letcher County Industrial Foundation

Scope and Content Note:

This nonprofit corporation's objective was to stimulate manufacturing and commercial activity in Whitesburg and Letcher County.

August 22, 1966-May 21, 1968

[Box: 11, Folder: 11]

xix Whitesburg/Letcher County Water Project

Scope and Content Note:

Submitted to the Department of Local Government, the Community Development Block Grant Program, and the Farmers Home Administration, this project was an attempt to obtain 93% funding for an improved and expanded public water system for Whitesburg and Letcher County. The Appalachian Regional Commission was asked to fund the remaining amount. The file consists of correspondence between Caudill, Nesbitt Engineering, and other persons and agencies interested in the project.

February 19, 1988-July 17, 1989

[Box: 11, Folder: 12]

xx Wood Using Industries

Scope and Content Note:

Caudill was always concerned with eastern Kentucky's economic dependence on the coal industry. He advocated diversification by establishing wood using industries including furniture, floor, and molding factories. Development groups that offered to help support his ideas by providing loans and other assistance included the Kentucky River Area Development District (KRADD) in Hazard and the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development(MACED). The file includes correspondence with R. Percy Elkins, executive director of KRADD, and Troy Eslinger, interim executive director of MACED, and clippings of articles by Caudill and others about wood industries.

March 11, 1964-October 1989; N.d

[Box: 11, Folder: 13]

xxi Yankee-Dixie Power Association

Scope and Content Note:

The plan of this group was to build mine-mouth steam generating plants in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Alabama in order to form a large public-owned power cooperative for Appalachia. Costs of transporting power would be far less than the cost of transporting coal, the group reasoned, and coal-generated power could supply the entire eastern U.S. Lockheed did some of the original studies but lost interest in participating. R.R. Popham of the New York engineering firm, Laramore, Douglas, and Popham was instrumental in setting up a meeting of munincipal and public power representatives in Washington, D.C., on March 8, 1965. Hugh Spurlock of East Kentucky Rural Electric in Winchester, Kentucky, served as chair. Articles of incorporation were filed in Kentucky on November 15, 1965. Caudill's interest in public power development shifted to the Congress for Appalachian Development. [For related materials, see the files on "Eastern Kentucky Public Power Development" in Box 10.]

February 5, 1965-April 23, 1965

[Box: 12, Folder: 1]

May 6, 1965-November 19, 1965

[Box: 12, Folder: 2]

November 20, 1965-July 29, 1966

[Box: 12, Folder: 3]

August 10, 1966-June 1968

[Box: 12, Folder: 4]

ii EDUCATION

i General

Scope and Content Note:

Correspondence, clippings, and letters to the editor concerning Caudill's continuing interest in improving the education of Kentuckians.

January 1959-November 16, 1965

[Box: 13, Folder: 1]

April 16, 1966-March 1, 1980

[Box: 13, Folder: 2]

February 11, 1981-December 27, 1983

[Box: 13, Folder: 3]

January 13, 1984-June 30, 1985

[Box: 13, Folder: 4]

July 9, 1985-May 14, 1997; N.d

[Box: 13, Folder: 5]

ii Appalachian Student Fund, Inc

Scope and Content Note:

This organization's purpose was to loan money to college students who intended to live and work in one of forty eastern Kentucky counties after graduation. The group considered the guidelines used by the Rural Kentucky Medical Scholarship Fund, Inc., in developing the conditions for their loans. For every year a loan recipient lived and worked in one of the designated counties, one year of the loan would be forgiven. Jerry F. Howell, Jr., served as executive director. Honorary board members included Caudill and former governor Bert Combs. The file contains minutes of the November 3, 1990, meeting, a loan application stating conditions of the loans, and information on the Rural Kentucky Medical Scholarship Fund, Inc.

iii Corns' Decision

Scope and Content Note:

In 1989, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that Kentucky's entire school system was unconstitutional and ordered the General Assembly to re-create, re-establish, and fund a totally new system. The General Assembly was to assume that property tax was assessed on all property at 100% of its value. The file includes the court decision, including dissenting opinions, correspondence concerning it, and articles by Caudill and others about possible reforms.

July 24, 1988-April 10, 1990; N.d

[Box: 13, Folder: 7]

iv Governor's Council on Education Reform

Scope and Content Note:

In 1984, Caudill was appointed by Governor Martha Layne Collins to review previous educational studies and propose a new course of action. He did not support the council's final recommendation.

October 1981-November 28, 1984

[Box: 14, Folder: 1]

December 1, 1984-May 7, 1986

[Box: 14, Folder: 2]

v House Special Committee to Investigate Education February 23-March 10, 1960

Scope and Content Note:

Authorized by House Resolution 55, adopted on February 11, 1960, the committee was composed of seven members of the House of Representatives. Harry Caudill was the chair and Marlowe Cook the vice-chair. Hearings were held from February 23-March 9. Recommendations were made in the March 10 final report regarding five areas: supervision of school administration, district organizations, teachers, school finance, and administration of the Minimum Foundation program. The Special Commission on Education was authorized as a result of these recommendations. [For related materials, see "General Assembly" under the heading "Politics" in Box 27.]

Correspondence, February 3-March 11, 1960

[Box: 14, Folder: 3]

Correspondence, March 12, 1960-October 3, 1984

[Box: 14, Folder: 4]

Hearings and Final Reports

[Box: 14, Folder: 5]

vi Special Commission on Education

Scope and Content Note:

Authorized by House Bill 383, nine members were appointed for 2-4 year terms by Governor Bert Combs on June 10, 1960. Interests of the commission were wide-ranging, including teacher certification, training and salary scales, curriculum and extracurricular activities, politics in school systems, and physical facilities. Studies were conducted by Booz, Allen, and Hamilton (on school systems in general, with an emphasis on administration); the Associated Consultants in Education (on foundation programs); and the Curriculum Committee, composed of twelve Kentucky educators--three from public schools and nine from colleges and universities. Recommendations from the commission were modified and incorporated into an omnibus educational bill (probably House Bill 207) in 1962. Caudill's term expired in June 1962. [The Special Commission on Education was preceded by the House Special Committee to Investigate Education. See related materials in Box 14, Folders 3-5.]

Scope and Content Note:

Scope and Content Note:

Caudill served on the KET Advisory Committee, composed of about fifty Kentuckians, from 1975 to c. November 1984. The committee advised KET on all aspects of its operations, including programming, fiscal policies, and planning.

National Committee for the Public Schools; February 17-July 6, 1965

Scope and Content Note:

National Humanities Series; November 26, 1969-December 1, 1970; N.d

[Box: 15, Folder: 8]

Scope and Content Note:

The series, "Time Out for Man: The Humanities in Action," involved three two-day visits by scholars offering presentations on "man's relationship with other individuals close to him; man's relationship with society; and man's relationship with his environment." Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the series was presented in thirty small towns across the country, including Whitesburg. The file contains communication with personnel and proceedings of organizational meetings of the Letcher County chapter.

iii ENVIRONMENT

i General

Scope and Content Note:

Includes correspondence and clippings on environmental topics not included elsewhere in this section. For example: water pollution, floods, overweight coal trucks, reforestation, the U.S. Forest Service, TVA, and garbage disposal. Many of these are strip mining-related issues, too, so see files on "Strip Mining" for other pertinent documents.

August 30, 1960-December 1969

[Box: 16, Folder: 1]

January 10, 1970-November 23, 1970

[Box: 16, Folder: 2]

January 8, 1971-October 5, 1978

[Box: 16, Folder: 3]

January 18, 1979-November 29, 1981

[Box: 16, Folder: 4]

January 14, 1982-October 21, 1990; N.d

[Box: 16, Folder: 5]

ii Bad Branch Falls

Scope and Content Note:

Includes correspondence and clippings on acquisition of a natural preserve in Letcher Co. by the Nature Conservancy. The conservancy buys land to save the habitats of endangered species.

1974-1990

[Box: 16, Folder: 6]

iii Kentucky Earthquake Possibilities

December 27, 1969-January 25, 1982; N.d

[Box: 16, Folder: 7]

iv Kingdom Come Reservoir

Scope and Content Note:

Documents successful local opposition to a dam site proposed by the U.S. Army Core of Engineers near Ulvah in Letcher County.

October 13, 1967-September 19, 1971; N.d

[Box: 16, Folder: 8]

v Letcher County Soil Conservation District

Scope and Content Note:

Caudill served on the Board of Supervisors August 31, 1962-December 31, 1964.

September 28, 1960-July 16, 1965; N.d

[Box: 16, Folder: 9]

vi Lilley's Woods

Scope and Content Note:

Documents the fight, by Caudill and others, to save and preserve a tract of virgin forest on Linefork Creek in Letcher County. Groups such as the Nature Conservancy and the Audubon Society were involved, as well as Mary and Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal.

May 26, 1965-December 22, 1967

[Box: 17, Folder: 1]

January 3, 1968-November 7, 1968

[Box: 17, Folder: 2]

January 14, 1969-March 13, 1991; N.d

[Box: 17, Folder: 3]

vii Northern Plains Resource Council

Scope and Content Note:

The Caudills worked extensively with this non-profit environmentalist group to prevent the Appalachian environmental disasters from being repeated in the West. Topics covered include strip mining, corporate land ownership, severance and unmined mineral taxes, water pollution, agriculture, and rights of Native Americans.

December 11, 1970-October 25, 1972

[Box: 17, Folder: 4]

November 30, 1972-December 29, 1972

[Box: 17, Folder: 5]

January 16, 1973-September 1, 1982

[Box: 17, Folder: 6]

viii Red River Gorge Dam

Scope and Content Note:

Documents the fight to save the scenic eastern Kentucky Red River Gorge from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers' proposed dam. Opposition was both local and national--from organizing valley residents, to the active involvement of the Sierra Club, to editorials in the New York Times. Caudill participated by using his national media contacts, writing letters to legislators like Senator John Sherman Cooper, guiding people through the Gorge, and publishing an article in Audubon, in the fall of 1968.

October 4, 1966-December 27, 1967

[Box: 18, Folder: 1]

January 3, 1968-March 27, 1968

[Box: 18, Folder: 2]

April 2, 1968-August 26, 1969

[Box: 18, Folder: 3]

September 21, 1969-September 30, 1970

[Box: 18, Folder: 4]

February 10, 1971-October 16, 1975; N.d

[Box: 18, Folder: 5]

ix Strip Mining

i General

Scope and Content Note:

The following five boxes contain correspondence, clippings, articles, legislation, and government testimony--all related to strip mining, especially in eastern Kentucky. These files are a record of Caudill's intensely active work, for four decades, to stop the destruction caused by this mining method. [As a state representative in 1960, Caudill sponsored strip mining legislation. Some information on strip mining is located in the "General Assembly" file under "Politics." See Box 27.]

May 1956-December 27, 1960

[Box: 19, Folder: 1]

January 7, 1961-December 21, 1962

[Box: 19, Folder: 2]

March 17, 1963-November 19, 1964

[Box: 19, Folder: 3]

January 10, 1965-December 23, 1965

[Box: 19, Folder: 4]

January 5, 1966-March 26, 1966

[Box: 19, Folder: 5]

April 1, 1966-December 28, 1966

[Box: 19, Folder: 6]

January 8, 1967-July 30, 1967

[Box: 20, Folder: 1]

August 2, 1967-August 31, 1967

[Box: 20, Folder: 2]

September 1, 1967-December 28, 1967

[Box: 20, Folder: 3]

January 3, 1968-November 30, 1968

[Box: 20, Folder: 4]

January 9, 1969-December 4, 1969

[Box: 20, Folder: 5]

January 10, 1970-May 28, 1970

[Box: 21, Folder: 1]

June 7, 1970-October 27, 1970

[Box: 21, Folder: 2]

November 9, 1970-December 30, 1970

[Box: 21, Folder: 3]

January 5, 1971-March 31, 1971

[Box: 22, Folder: 1]

April 5, 1971-August 23, 1971

[Box: 22, Folder: 2]

September 1, 1971-November 23, 1971

[Box: 22, Folder: 3]

December 9, l971-December 30, 1971

[Box: 22, Folder: 4]

January 4, 1972-April 27, 1972

[Box: 23, Folder: 1]

May 17, 1972-December 30, 1972

[Box: 23, Folder: 2]

January 17, 1973-November 18, 1977

[Box: 23, Folder: 3]

April 20, 1978-December 1992

[Box: 23, Folder: 4]

N.d

[Box: 23, Folder: 5]

ii Bethlehem Steel Project

Scope and Content Note:

Caudill was involved in the protests against the Beth-Elkhorn Corporation opening a huge strip mine site in Letcher County. Beth-Elkhorn was owned by Bethlehem Steel. [See David McCullough's article "The Lonely War of a Good Angry Man," in Box 62, Folder 2, for background material.

May 26, 1969-October 30, 1969

[Box: 23, Folder: 6]

November 2, 1969-December 29, 1969

[Box: 23, Folder: 7]

January 6, 1970-February 20, 1972; N.d

Scope and Content Note:

Documents a statewide effort by various groups, such as the Pike County Citizen's Association, the Audubon Society, University of Kentucky students and professors, and the Sierra Club, to form a coalition to work towards banning strip mining in Kentucky or, at the least, establish strict laws for how strip mining could be done and to enforce reclamation. Caudill was elected chair of the Committee. [For related materials, see the "General" files on "Strip Mining," Boxes 19-23.]

January 3, 1969-December 31, 1969

[Box: 24, Folder: 1]

January 5, 1970-May 11, 1970

[Box: 24, Folder: 2]

June 9, 1970-August 5, 1971

[Box: 24, Folder: 3]

iv Save Our Kentucky (SOK)

Scope and Content Note:

SOK held its organizational meeting on January 15, 1971, in Berea, Kentucky. Its purpose was "to pull together organizations and individuals, allied only by common ideology, into an incorporated alliance" and its "areas of concern [were] directed toward surface mining which degrades our environment, with a focus on Eastern Kentucky, and the tax structure which omits the quitable taxing of the extraction of our natural resources." People representing the following groups were involved: the Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People, the Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, the Council of the Southern Mountains, the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund, the Citizen's League to Protect Surface Rights, the Pike County Citizens Association, and the Kentucky Conservation Council.

January 26, 1971-September 27, 1971

[Box: 24, Folder: 4]

October 2, 1971-December 1, 1971

[Box: 24, Folder: 5]

January 13, 1972-November 29, 1972; N.d

[Box: 24, Folder: 6]

x White House Conference on Natural Beauty, May 22-24, 1965

Scope and Content Note:

Caudill was invited to attend this conference and serve on the "Reclamation of the Landscape" panel. The file includes working papers, the official proceedings from the conference, and correspondence.

October 26, 1964-June 2, 1965

[Box: 25, Folder: 1]

May 23, 1965-January 28, 1966; N.d

[Box: 25, Folder: 2]

Proceedings

[Box: 25, Folder: 3]

iv POLITICS

i General

Scope and Content Note:

Correspondence, clippings, election returns, and campaign literature on a wide range of primarily Kentucky-related political interests. [Broadsides of Kentucky politicians Doug Hays and A. J. May were removed and placed in the Modern Political Papers collection, located in the Division of Special Collections and Archives.]

April 23, 1951-November 15, 1966

[Box: 26, Folder: 1]

January 17, 1967-December 10, 1970

[Box: 26, Folder: 2]

February 19, 1971-October 12, 1979

[Box: 26, Folder: 3]

February 7, 1980-April 12, 1990; N.d

[Box: 26, Folder: 4]

ii Bert Combs Gubernatorial Race

April 3, 1959-December 9, 1959

[Box: 26, Folder: 5]

iii Happy Chandler Gubernatorial Primary

November 24, 1962-May 1, 1963

[Box: 26, Folder: 6]

iv George Atkins Gubernatorial Primary

Scope and Content Note:

Speeches by and correspondence from Caudill supporting Atkins, who was defeated by John Y. Brown, Jr., in the Democratic primary.

May 17, 1978-September 25, 1979

[Box: 26, Folder: 7]

v Election Reform, 1987-1988

Scope and Content Note:

In October 1987, the
Louisville Courier-Journal ran a series of articles dealing with problems in Kentucky's political process and calling for the Attorney General and the legislative leadership to institute election reform measures. After his election, Fred Cowan formed his Attorney General's Vote Fraud Task Force. The investigative body of the General Assembly, the Legislative Research Commission, formed a Special Commission on Election Reform on December 2, 1987. The Special Commission had three sub-committees: campaign financing, conduct of elections, and enforcement. Caudill served on the sub-committee dealing with conduct of elections until May 12, 1988, when he resigned. The Attorney General's Task Force and the Special Commission met and issued joint recommendations for election reform as well as individual reports. Some of the Special Commission's recommendations were included in SB 268, passed by the General Assembly. However, many of the recommendations were deleted along the way.

The file includes the
Louisville Courier-Journal series of articles, the January 1988 interim report of the Special Commission, the final report of December 1988, and joint recommendations of the Special Commission and Attorney General's Task Force.

June 14, 1987-January 26, 1988

[Box: 26, Folder: 8]

January 31, 1988-May 24, 1989

[Box: 26, Folder: 9]

vi General Assembly

Scope and Content Note:

Caudill was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1953, 1955, and 1959. In 1959, he was defeated in the Democratic primary, but the winner died before the general election and Caudill was appointed as Democratic candidate. During the 1957-58 period, when he was not a member of the House, he maintained interest in the legislative proceedings. While he filed for office again in 1963, poor health forced him to withdraw. In addition, he served on several important educational committees from 1960-62; related materials are in the "Education" files, Boxes 14-15.

c. 1953-June 25, 1957

[Box: 27, Folder: 1]

January 17, 1958-August 28, 1958

[Box: 27, Folder: 2]

November 13, 1958-November 30, 1959

[Box: 27, Folder: 3]

December 1, 1959-March 31, 1960

[Box: 27, Folder: 4]

April 1, 1960-November 29, 1960

[Box: 27, Folder: 5]

December 4, 1960-September 18, 1962

[Box: 27, Folder: 6]

March 14, 1963-November 25, 1988

[Box: 27, Folder: 7]

vii Letcher County Politics

Scope and Content Note:

Correspondence and clippings relating to local political figures and issues.

April 26, 1956-April 15, 1969

[Box: 27, Folder: 8]

v WAR ON POVERTY

Scope and Content Note:

The official "War on Poverty" was declared by President Lyndon B. Johnson during a visit to Inez, Kentucky, and legislation was passed in the spring of 1964. This federal anti-poverty effort helped feed, clothe, house, train, and educate poor people in Appalachia. Highways, vocational schools, health clinics, and water and sewer projects were built with federal funds. The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) was the agency created to administer the overall antipoverty campaign and the local Community Action programs. [For related materials see the "Development" files, Boxes 6-12.]

These files include correspondence between the Caudills and the OEO, community groups, and other concerned individuals both inside and outside the region. Also included are clippings and correspondence about poverty programs in Letcher County and in the region.

i General

Scope and Content Note:

Includes articles, correspondence and clippings that reflect economic conditions in Appalachia. Also includes correspondence between the Caudills and other individuals and organizations that worked toward fighting the War on Poverty and clippings about public reaction to the "poverty problem." In addition, clippings about President Johnson's visit to the region in the spring of 1964 and Senator Robert F. Kennedy's visit to eastern Kentucky on February 13-15, 1968, are included.

March 24, 1940-December 18, 1963

[Box: 28, Folder: 1]

January 13, 1964-June 18, 1964

[Box: 28, Folder: 2]

July 12, 1964-December 28, 1964

[Box: 28, Folder: 3]

January 3, 1965-December 11, 1965

[Box: 28, Folder: 4]

January 23, 1966-November 1, 1967

[Box: 28, Folder: 5]

January 11, 1968-December 30, 1968

[Box: 28, Folder: 6]

January 29, 1969-November 5, 1996; N.d

[Box: 28, Folder: 7]

ii Organizations

i Appalachian Volunteers (AV)

Scope and Content Note:

Consisting primarily of college students who volunteered during the summer in eastern Kentucky, the AV program began operation in 1964 with a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity(OEO) funded through the Council of the Southern Mountains. The AVs trained VISTA workers for placement in the mountains and volunteered in local poverty agencies. When many of the AVs began to analyze the structural causes of poverty in the region, they took on a more active role as organizers and agitators. In May 1966, the AVs separated from the auspices of the Council but continued to be independently funded by OEO until the Nixon administration.

March 6, 1965-September 24, 1979; N.d

[Box: 29, Folder: 1]

ii Community Groups

Scope and Content Note:

Includes correspondence and newsletters of these groups: the Appalachian Committee for Full Employment, the Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People, the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty, the Community Board of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund, the Disabled Miners and Widows of Deceased Miners (Boone County, WV), the Kentucky Civil Liberties Union, the Pike County Citizens Association [other materials on the PCCA are in files on the Bethlehem Steel Project in Box 23, Folders 6-8], and the Southern Student Organizing Committee.

September 4, 1964-January 10, 1971

[Box: 29, Folder: 2]

iii Council for Christian Social Action, Anti-Poverty Task Force

Scope and Content Note:

This New York City based group was a council of the United Church of Christ, which sponsored a series of National Council of Churches Anti-Poverty Hearings, the first of which was held in Whitesburg, Kentucky, on November 15-16, 1966. The second public hearing was held in Hazard the same week. The objective of these hearings was to get reactions of local citizens, particularly the poor people themselves, concerning the effectiveness of federal anti-poverty programs.

January 27, 1966-December 27, 1966

[Box: 29, Folder: 3]

iv Council of the Southern Mountains (CSM)

Scope and Content Note:

This nonprofit organization based in Berea, Kentucky, was affiliated with the Appalachian Volunteers until May 1966. The objective of the CSM was to promote social, economic, cultural, and spiritual interest in the Appalachian region. The files include correspondence, announcements, bylaws, and minutes of meetings. Also included are issues of
Mountain Life & Work, a CSM monthly publication.

January 30, 1964-April 28, 1966

[Box: 29, Folder: 4]

May 2, 1966-October 1970; N.d

[Box: 29, Folder: 5]

v Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)

Scope and Content Note:

This federal agency, created by President Johnson to coordinate all poverty programs, was headed by Sargent Shriver, formerly director of the Peace Corps. The file also includes clippings about VISTA and the Job Corps.

February 2, 1964-November 30, 1970; N. d

[Box: 29, Folder: 6]

iii Programs

i Eastern Kentucky

Scope and Content Note:

Includes clippings, correspondence, and descriptions of anti-poverty programs. Also includes descriptions of federal programs on the state level funded through the OEO and materials relating to the Leslie, Knott, Letcher, Perry Community Action Council (LKLP).

May 10, 1963-December 20, 1982, N.d

[Box: 29, Folder: 7]

ii Letcher County

Scope and Content Note:

Includes clippings and correspondence about local poverty programs; and correspondence, resolutions, bylaws, and minutes of meetings of the Letcher County Economic Opportunity Committee, of which Caudill was a member until May 1965.

November 3, 1958-January 22, 1970

[Box: 29, Folder: 8]

iv Related Materials

i Kentucky Rifles

Scope and Content Note:

Includes clippings and correspondence related to the two Kentucky Rifles which were gifts from the people of eastern Kentucky to President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and to Kentucky governor Edward T. Breathitt in 1965.

June 22, 1964-December 3, 1965

[Box: 29, Folder: 9]

ii Letcher County Golden Years Rest Home, Inc

Scope and Content Note:

Documents include a description and projected budget for this nonprofit personal care facility.

May 28, 1969-March 12, 1971

[Box: 29, Folder: 10]

vi MISCELLANEOUS

i Death Sentence

December 2, 1976-December 13, 1976

[Box: 30, Folder: 1]

ii Gun Control

April 7, 1981-April 25 1981

[Box: 30, Folder: 2]

iii Mine Health and Safety

Scope and Content Note:

Correspondence and clippings about various topics, including black lung and the Scotia mine disaster.

March 15, 1948-March 30, 1969

[Box: 30, Folder: 3]

April 5, 1969-October 30, 1986; N.d

[Box: 30, Folder: 4]

iv Moonshining

February 18, 1962-November 13, 1988

[Box: 30, Folder: 5]

v Shakertown Roundtable

Scope and Content Note:

This nonprofit independent corporation was established by Earl Wallace, a native Kentuckian and internationally known oil engineer. After retirement, he returned to Kentucky and solicited donations nationally to restore Shakertown Village near Harrodsburg, Kentucky. In 1977, the Shakertown Roundtable began holding annual forums to educate the public on issues pertinent to Kentucky, such as higher education economic development and the overall state of the Commonwealth. Funding sources included the Mary and Barry Bingham, Sr. Fund and the Kentucky Economic Development Corporation headed by W T. Young. Participants included former governor Bert Combs and historian Thomas Clark.

Caudill attended several roundtables and served on the steering Committee for the 1987 session. The files include correspondence with Earl Wallace, papers presented at meetings, and summaries of various sessions. Most of the material is about the November 8-9, 1987, roundtable, "State of the Commonwealth."

May 1986-November 8-9, 1987

[Box: 30, Folder: 6]

November 8-9, 1987

[Box: 30, Folder: 7]

November 18, 1987-January 31, 1991

[Box: 30, Folder: 8]

vi Southeast Community College (Whitesburg, Kentucky)

Scope and Content Note:

This extension of Southeast Community College was developed by the Whitesburg Education Development Foundation, Inc., on whose board Harry Caudill served. The new college was established in a renovated Coca-Cola bottling plant. The bulk of the one million dollars needed for the renovation came from donations of corporations and individuals in the community. The campus opened for classes in the fall of 1990 with an enrollment of 382 students.

February 2, 1970-October 22, 1971

January 10, 1972-c. 1980

January 14, 1981-November 11, 1982

March 1983-January 27, 1991; N.d

Circulars from the Kentucky Department of Revenue, October 1964-August 1968

[Box: 31, Folder: 7]

viii United Mine Workers of America

July 15, 1961-February 24, 1978; N.d

[Box: 32, Folder: 1]

ix United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds

c. early 1950s-September 9, 1971

[Box: 32, Folder: 2]

x University of Kentucky Basketball Case

April 20, 1988

[Box: 32, Folder: 3]

xi Vietnam War Opposition

January 13, 1967-February 5, 1973

[Box: 32, Folder: 4]

xii Wayne Cannel Coal Company

Scope and Content Note:

Includes contracts, correspondence, and financial materials concerning Caudill's business interest in this company.

May 9, 1963-February 27, 1969

[Box: 32, Folder: 5]

xiii Wenner-Gren Protest

Scope and Content Note:

When Caudill was a student at the University of Kentucky in 1945, he and two other student-veterans, L. L. Booth and Robert B. Eastburn, circulated a petition objecting to the actions of the University's trustees regarding Alex Leonard Wenner-Gren. In 1940, Swedish industrialist Wenner-Gren had presented a gift of $155,600 to the University to equip an aeronautical laboratory. Except for two rooms, Wenner-Gren's Mawen Motor Company had exclusive use of the laboratory. In 1942, the U S. Government blacklisted Wenner-Gren for selling aircraft to Nazi Germany. University trustees tried to have Wenner-Gren's name removed from the blacklist and placed his name on a campus building. The file contains petitions and newspaper clippings.

1945

[Box: 32, Folder: 6]

xiv Additional Clippings [miscellaneous subjects]

c. early 1900s-October 20, 1986

[Box: 32, Folder: 7]

June 23, 1987-April 7, 1991; N.d

[Box: 32, Folder: 8]

III CORRESPONDENCE

i GENERAL

Scope and Content Note:

Includes communication with government officials, both state and federal politicians, fellow genealogists, social visitors to the Caudill home and to eastern Kentucky, friends, and students. Also included are social invitations; letters related to his law practice and to personal and family matters; letters of reference for students; Caudill's orders for books by other authors; letters of request for biographical materials; and letters seeking advice about voluntary service in Appalachia.

i General

November 9, 1959-December 26, 1965

[Box: 33, Folder: 1]

January 12, 1966-December 27, 1967

[Box: 33, Folder: 2]

January 11, 1968-December 3, 1971

[Box: 33, Folder: 3]

January 25, 1972-October 20, 1975

[Box: 33, Folder: 4]

January 5, 1976-December 30, 1976

[Box: 33, Folder: 5]

January 2, 1977-August 29, 1977

[Box: 33, Folder: 6]

September 2, 1977-December 14, 1977

[Box: 33, Folder: 7]

January 1, 1978-December 13, 1978

[Box: 34, Folder: 1]

January 6, 1979-August 26, 1979

[Box: 34, Folder: 2]

September 3, 1979-December 22, 1979

[Box: 34, Folder: 3]

January 4, 1980-August 18, 1980

[Box: 34, Folder: 4]

September 10, 1980-December 30, 1980

[Box: 34, Folder: 5]

January 6, 1981-December 21, 1981

[Box: 34, Folder: 6]

January 1, 1982-December 17, 1982

[Box: 35, Folder: 1]

January 11, 1983-December 16, 1983

[Box: 35, Folder: 2]

January 23, 1984-December 5, 1986

[Box: 35, Folder: 3]

January 15, 1987-December 18, 1987

[Box: 35, Folder: 4]

January 6, 1988-December 19, 1988

[Box: 35, Folder: 5]

January 14, 1989-December 21, 1989

[Box: 36, Folder: 1]

January 16, 1990-2000; N.d

[Box: 36, Folder: 2]

ii Westover

Scope and Content Note:

Jane and Huston Westover were long-time friends of the Caudills. [Anne Caudill added these files after the organization of this collection was nearly completed; thus, these letters were not integrated into the "General" correspondence above.]

1959-1967

[Box: 36, Folder: 3]

1969-1974

[Box: 36, Folder: 4]

1975-1979

[Box: 36, Folder: 5]

1980-1983

[Box: 36, Folder: 6]

1984-early Spring, 1987; N.d

[Box: 37, Folder: 1]

iii Rosenblum [Other correspondence with Beverley and James Rosenblum of Louisville, Kentucky, is filed in the "General" correspondence above.]

1968-1969

[Box: 37, Folder: 2]

iv Frye Family [Anne Frye Caudill's family]

Anne Caudill to family, 1945-1969

[Box: 37, Folder: 3]

Anne Caudill to Mother and Aunt Anne [Ammerman], 1972-1974

[Box: 37, Folder: 4]

Anne Caudill to Mother and Aunt Anne [Ammerman], 1975-1979

[Box: 37, Folder: 5]

Anne Caudill to Aunt Anne [Ammerman], 1986-1987

[Box: 37, Folder: 6]

ii SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Scope and Content Note:

Includes correspondence, clippings, and programs of Caudill's formal speaking engagements, including conference and workshop participation. Also includes correspondence with government officials and dignitaries requesting his opinions or testimony, as well as letters to and from school, community, and college groups scheduled to take one of the Caudills' mountain tours and to hear Caudill talk about eastern Kentucky--usually about environmental issues.

October 6, 1960-December 30, 1963

[Box: 38, Folder: 1]

January 2, 1964-February 29, 1964

[Box: 38, Folder: 2]

March 2, 1964-April 30, 1964

[Box: 38, Folder: 3]

May 5, 1964-July 31, 1964

[Box: 38, Folder: 4]

August 5, 1964-December 29, 1964

[Box: 38, Folder: 5]

January 4, 1965-March 31, 1965

[Box: 38, Folder: 6]

April 1, 1965-June 30, 1965

[Box: 38, Folder: 7]

July 2, 1965-September 29, 1965

[Box: 38, Folder: 8]

October 1, 1965-December 23, 1965

[Box: 39, Folder: 1]

January 7, 1966-March 31, 1966

[Box: 39, Folder: 2]

April 1, 1966-June 30, 1966

[Box: 39, Folder: 3]

July 3, 1966-September 29, 1966

[Box: 39, Folder: 4]

October 3, 1966-December 28, 1966

[Box: 39, Folder: 5]

January 2, 1967-March 31, 1967

[Box: 39, Folder: 6]

April 3, 1967-June 29, 1967

[Box: 39, Folder: 7]

July 7, 1967-September 28, 1967

[Box: 40, Folder: 1]

October 2, 1967-December 29, 1967

[Box: 40, Folder: 2]

January 3, 1968-March 27, 1968

[Box: 40, Folder: 3]

April 1, 1968-July 27, 1968

[Box: 40, Folder: 4]

August 3, 1968-December 20, 1968

[Box: 40, Folder: 5]

January 3, 1969-April 30, 1969

[Box: 40, Folder: 6]

May 1, 1969-September 30, 1969

[Box: 40, Folder: 7]

October 3, 1969-December 18, 1969

[Box: 41, Folder: 1]

January 8, 1970-February 27, 1970

[Box: 41, Folder: 2]

March 1, 1970-April 30, 1970

[Box: 41, Folder: 3]

May 1, 1970-June 30, 1970

[Box: 41, Folder: 4]

July 1, 1970-September, 30, 1970

[Box: 41, Folder: 5]

October 1, 1970-December 31, 1970

[Box: 42, Folder: 1]

January 4, 1971-March 31, 1971

[Box: 42, Folder: 2]

April 1, 1971-May 31, 1971

[Box: 42, Folder: 3]

June 3, 1971-September 27, 1971

[Box: 42, Folder: 4]

October 5, 1971-December 29, 1971

[Box: 42, Folder: 5]

January 3, 1972-March 31, 1972

[Box: 43, Folder: 1]

April 3, 1972-July 30, 1972

[Box: 43, Folder: 2]

August 2, 1972-September 28, 1972

[Box: 43, Folder: 3]

October 2, 1972-December 30, 1972

[Box: 43, Folder: 4]

January 5, 1973-March 30, 1973

[Box: 43, Folder: 5]

April 3, 1973-June 27, 1973

[Box: 43, Folder: 6]

July 16, 1973-December 28, 1973

[Box: 43, Folder: 7]

January 6, 1974-February 28, 1974

[Box: 44, Folder: 1]

March 1, 1974-May 31, 1974

[Box: 44, Folder: 2]

June 1, 1974-August 27, 1974

[Box: 44, Folder: 3]

September 3, 1974-December 28, 1974

[Box: 44, Folder: 4]

January 2, 1975-March 26, 1975

[Box: 44, Folder: 5]

April 5, 1975-June 28, 1975

[Box: 44, Folder: 6]

July 1, 1975-September 29, 1975

[Box: 44, Folder: 7]

October 2, 1975-December 28, 1975

[Box: 44, Folder: 8]

January 4, 1976-April 30, 1976

[Box: 45, Folder: 1]

May 18, 1976-September 28, 1976

[Box: 45, Folder: 2]

October 3, 1976-December 30, 1976

[Box: 45, Folder: 3]

January 10, 1977-March 29, 1977

[Box: 45, Folder: 4]

April 4, 1977-August 9, 1977

[Box: 45, Folder: 5]

September 14, 1977-December 17, 1977

[Box: 45, Folder: 6]

January 10, 1978-May 22, 1978

[Box: 45, Folder: 7]

June 9, 1978-August 30, 1978

[Box: 45, Folder: 8]

September 3, 1978-December 13, 1978

[Box: 46, Folder: 1]

January 15, 1979-February 23, 1979

[Box: 46, Folder: 2]

March 2, 1979-April 28, 1979

[Box: 46, Folder: 3]

May 9, 1979-July 31, 1979

[Box: 46, Folder: 4]

August 1, 1979-Septemiber 28, 1979

[Box: 46, Folder: 5]

October 11, 1979-December 21, 1979

[Box: 46, Folder: 6]

January 8, 1980-March 29, 1980

[Box: 46, Folder: 7]

April 2, 1980-April 30, 1980

[Box: 46, Folder: 8]

May 6, 1980-May 31, 1980

[Box: 47, Folder: 1]

June 9, 1980-July 29, 1980

[Box: 47, Folder: 2]

August 3, 1980-September 30, 1980

[Box: 47, Folder: 3]

October 2, 1980-December 12, 1980

[Box: 47, Folder: 4]

January 19, 1981-August 18, 1981

[Box: 47, Folder: 5]

August 21, 1981-December 28, 1981

[Box: 47, Folder: 6]

January 15, 1982-August 31, 1982

[Box: 47, Folder: 7]

September 16, 1982-December 4, 1982

[Box: 47, Folder: 8]

January 3, 1983-April 12, 1983

[Box: 47, Folder: 9]

May 25, 1983-August 5, 1983

[Box: 48, Folder: 1]

September 7, 1983-December 7, 1983

[Box: 48, Folder: 2]

January 12, 1984-December 20, 1984

[Box: 48, Folder: 3]

January 8, 1985-December 31, 1986

[Box: 48, Folder: 4]

January 8, 1987-November 30, 1987

[Box: 48, Folder: 5]

January 6, 1988-November 30, 1988

[Box: 48, Folder: 6]

January 23, 1989-October 23, 1990

[Box: 48, Folder: 7]

N.d

[Box: 48, Folder: 8]

iii PUBLICATIONS

Scope and Content Note:

Correspondence in this section relates to Caudill's published work. It is divided into three parts: the books, in order of publishing date; articles, in order of publishing date; and general (see detailed explanation of this category, beginning at Box 60.) Included are letters from publishers, editors, and readers. Also included are requests and permissions for reprints of articles; requests for autographs; and publishers' promotional materials.

i Books

i Night Comes to the Cumberlands (Little-Brown, 1963)

April 19, 1960-December 26, 1961

[Box: 49, Folder: 1]

January 1, 1962-December 28, 1962

[Box: 49, Folder: 2]

January 4, 1963-May 30, 1963

[Box: 49, Folder: 3]

June 4, 1963-July 30, 1963

[Box: 49, Folder: 4]

August 2, 1963-August 31, 1963

[Box: 49, Folder: 5]

September 1, l963-Septerber 30, 1963

[Box: 49, Folder: 6]

October 1, 1963-October 31, 1963

[Box: 49, Folder: 7]

November 1, 1963-November 29, 1963

[Box: 50, Folder: 1]

December 2, 1963-December 31, 1963

[Box: 50, Folder: 2]

January 1, 1964-January 31, 1964

[Box: 50, Folder: 3]

February 2, 1964-February 29, 1964

[Box: 50, Folder: 4]

March 2, 1964-March 31, 1964

[Box: 50, Folder: 5]

March 26, 1964-April 30, 1964

[Box: 51, Folder: 1]

May: 1, 1964-May 30, 1964

[Box: 51, Folder: 2]

June 1, 1964-July 30, 1964

[Box: 51, Folder: 3]

August 5, 1964-September 30, 1964

[Box: 51, Folder: 4]

October 6, 1964-December 30, 1964

[Box: 51, Folder: 5]

January 3, 1965-April 27, 1965

[Box: 51, Folder: 6]

May 17, 1965-December 23, 1965

[Box: 51, Folder: 7]

January 1, 1966-July 31, 1966

[Box: 51, Folder: 8]

August 4, 1966-December 11, 1966

[Box: 51, Folder: 9]

January 10, 1967-May 15, 1967

[Box: 52, Folder: 1]

July 6, 1967-December 21, 1967

[Box: 52, Folder: 2]

January 16, 1968-March 28, 1968

[Box: 52, Folder: 3]

April 8, 1968-August 29, 1968

[Box: 52, Folder: 4]

September 3, 1968-December 31, 1968

[Box: 52, Folder: 5]

January 7, 1969-February 28, 1969

[Box: 52, Folder: 6]

March 3, 1969-July 28, 1969

[Box: 52, Folder: 7]

August 4, 1969-December 30, 1969

[Box: 52, Folder: 8]

January 7, 1970-June 29, 1970

[Box: 52, Folder: 9]

July 6, 1970-December 3, 1970

[Box: 52, Folder: 10]

January 7, 1971-December 30, 1971

[Box: 53, Folder: 1]

January 27, 1972-June 30, 1972

[Box: 53, Folder: 2]

August 6, 1972-December 31, 1972

[Box: 53, Folder: 3]

January 3, 1973-December 11, 1973

[Box: 53, Folder: 4]

January 20, 1974-November 13, 1974

[Box: 53, Folder: 5]

January 13, 1975-November 18, 1975

[Box: 53, Folder: 6]

February 17, 1976-November 2, 1979

[Box: 53, Folder: 7]

February 6, 1980-November 30, 1983

[Box: 53, Folder: 8]

January 17, 1984-November 29, 1990

[Box: 53, Folder: 9]

1992-April 14, 2005; N.d

[Box: 53, Folder: 10]

ii Dark Hills to Westward (Little-Brown, 1969)

September 13, 1965-December 16, 1968

[Box: 54, Folder: 1]

January 2, 1969-July 24, 1969

[Box: 54, Folder: 2]

August 3, 1969-December 31, 1969

[Box: 54, Folder: 3]

January 5, 1970-November 9, 1970

[Box: 54, Folder: 4]

January 29, 1971-November 12, 1975

[Box: 54, Folder: 5]

February 17, 1976-November 19, 1994; N.d

[Box: 54, Folder: 6]

iii My Land is Dying (E.P. Dutton, 1971)

April 22, 1968-December 15, 1970

[Box: 55, Folder: 1]

January 7, 1971-December 30, 1971

[Box: 55, Folder: 2]

January 3, 1972-January 31, 1972

[Box: 55, Folder: 3]

February 1, 1972-May 29, 1972

[Box: 55, Folder: 4]

June 6, 1972-August 29, 1972

[Box: 55, Folder: 5]

September 4, 1972-December 31, 1972

[Box: 55, Folder: 6]

January 24, 1973-December 15, 1973

[Box: 55, Folder: 7]

January 1, 1974-October 31, 1975

[Box: 55, Folder: 8]

February 4, 1976-May 16, 1989; N.d

[Box: 55, Folder: 9]

iv The Senator from Slaughter County (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1973)

April 16, 1964-December 19, 1973

[Box: 56, Folder: 1]

January 9, 1974-March 6, 1989; N.d

[Box: 56, Folder: 2]

v A Darkness at Dawn (University Press of Kentucky, 1976)

November 21, 1972-September 9, 1974

[Box: 56, Folder: 3]

August 4, 1978-August 8, 1983; N.d

[Box: 56, Folder: 4]

vi Watches of the Night (Atlantic Monthly Press)

August 6, 1974-December 31, 1976

[Box: 56, Folder: 5]

January 13, 1977-September 9, 1988; N.d

[Box: 56, Folder: 6]

vii The Mountain, The Miner, and The Lord: Tales From a Country Law Office (University Press of Kentucky, 1980)

February 18, 1964-December 12, 1980

[Box: 57, Folder: 1]

January 15, 1981-May 5, 1990; N.d

[Box: 57, Folder: 2]

viii Theirs Be The Power: The Moguls of Eastern Kentucky (University of Illinois Press, 1983)

July 7, 1980-December 8, 1981

[Box: 57, Folder: 3]

January 4, 1982-December 23, 1982

[Box: 57, Folder: 4]

January 11, 1983, December 8, 1983

[Box: 57, Folder: 5]

January 3, 1984-June 30, 1991; N.d

[Box: 57, Folder: 6]

ix Lester's Progress (Kentucke Imprints, 1986)

September 20, 1982-September 29, 1987; N.d

[Box: 58, Folder: 1]

x Slender is the Thread: More Tales from a Country Law Office (University Press of Kentucky, 1987)

March 25, 1985-May 29, 1990

[Box: 58, Folder: 2]

xi Articles

Scope and Content Note:

The Caudills organized correspondence regarding specific articles as below. These are arranged chronologically by publishing date. Correspondence about all other articles is in the "General" section following this one, beginning at Box 60.

"Farming and Mining: There Is No Land To Spare." [published in
Atlantic Monthly, September 1973] November 1972-December 11, 1978

xii Foreword

in
Yesterday's People by Jack Weller [published by University Press of Kentucky, 1965] August 12, 1965

[Box: 59, Folder: 8]

xiii General

Scope and Content Note:

These boxes contain letters from publishers to solicit articles and book reviews or from fellow authors to invite collaboration on books; requests for permission to reprint in full or part, or to include in anthologies and encyclopedias, previously published articles or speeches by Caudill; and Caudill's reactions to articles and those about him from individuals and organizations. Also included are correspondence with publishers, magazine and newspaper editors, journalists, and other writers about writing. Materials relating to book fairs and cover letters accompanying articles submitted to journals for publication are located here as well.

October 28, 1960-December 23, 1964

[Box: 60, Folder: 1]

January 4, 1965-December 31, 1967

[Box: 60, Folder: 2]

January 5, 1968-November 25, 1969

[Box: 60, Folder: 3]

January 6, 1970-December 30, 1970

[Box: 60, Folder: 4]

January 6, 1971-December 21, 1971

[Box: 60, Folder: 5]

January 10, 1972-December 23, 1974

[Box: 60, Folder: 6]

January 7, 1975-April 26, 1979

[Box: 61, Folder: 1]

May 15, 1979-December 21, 1981

[Box: 61, Folder: 2]

January 14, 1982-December 15, 1982

[Box: 61, Folder: 3]

January 18, 1983-December 1, 1987

[Box: 62, Folder: 1]

January 3, 1988-November 28, 1990; N.d

[Box: 62, Folder: 2]

xiv Miscellaneous

Scope and Content Note:

These folders contain correspondence regarding two magazine articles about Caudill.

"These Murdered Old Mountains" by David Nevin. [published in
Life, January 12, 1968] January 9, 1968-0ctober 22, 1985

[Box: 62, Folder: 3]

"The Lonely War of a Good Angry Man" by David McCullough. [published in
American Heritage December 1969] April 14, 1969- August 28, 1974

[Box: 62, Folder: 4]

iv UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

Scope and Content Note:

Files contain letters and clippings related to Caudill's appointment, responsibilities, and activities while he was a professor of history at the University from August 1977 to May 1985. Correspondence with University administrators, colleagues in the history department, and the Appalachian Center are included, as well as course outlines, student rolls, and letters to and from students. [Letters of reference for students are in "General" correspondence, Boxes 33-36. A file on "the roast" of Harry Caudill given by the University is located in the "Awards and Honors" section, Box 3.]

January 19, 1977-December 7, 1977

[Box: 63, Folder: 1]

January 1, 1978-December 17, 1979

[Box: 63, Folder: 2]

January 15, 1980-December 19, 1980

[Box: 63, Folder: 3]

January 6, 1981-December 23, 1981

[Box: 63, Folder: 4]

January 4, 1982-December 22, 1982

[Box: 63, Folder: 5]

February 2, 1983-April 27, 1986; N.d

[Box: 63, Folder: 6]

v COMPANY E. 337TH INFANTRY

Scope and Content Note:

Includes letters from Caudill's World War II comrades, as well as newsletters published by former company E members and information about reunions.

"They Sold Their Votes for Bucks and Booze."
Washington Post, November 6, 1960 [excerpts from "How An Election Was Bought and Sold,"
Harper's Magazine, October 1960]

"Rape of the Appalachians."
Charleston Gazette, May 28, 1962 [adapted from same title published in
Atlantic, April 1962.]

[Box: 64, Folder: 5]

"The Rape of the Southern Mountains."
Readers' Digest, July l962 [condensed from same title published in
Atlantic, April 1962]

[Box: 64, Folder: 6]

"Caudill Still Wants a Power Authority."
Louisville Courier- Journal, November 17, 1963, Section 4 [originally prepared for
Public Power under title "Hope for Appalachia" and published there in December 1963]

[Box: 64, Folder: 7]

"Hope for Appalachia."
Public Power, December 1963

[Box: 64, Folder: 8]

"Future Floods May Become 'The Tiger in our Streets.'"
Hazard Herald, February 20, 1964 [from a speech delivered at the Hazard V.F.W. in 1963]

"Eastern Kentucky, Jaded Old Land of Bright New Promise."
Hazard Herald (April 9, 1970) [reprint from
Mountain Life & Work, March 1970]

"A Lament For The Appalachian Hills."
Charleston Gazette-Mail State Magazine, July 19, 1970 [reprint from
The Junior League, November/December 1969]

[Box: 65, Folder: 18]

"Embarrassment of Riches in Eastern Kentucky."
Kentucky School Journal, Vol. 49, no. 5 (January 1971) [based on a presentation before a special investigating committee of the National Education Association]

"Are Capitalism and the Conservation of a Decent Environment Compatible?" [published in
Agenda for Survival: The Environmental Crisis--2, edited by Harold W. Helfrich, Yale University Press, 1970; also includes printer's proofs]

[Box: 70, Folder: 23]

"Biography of James Laviers and diary of Thomas and James Laviers, 1863, Written while on board the Vanguard, a sailing vessel." [introduction; copy of the diary in "Research Materials," Box 79 Folder 2; published in the
Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 65, no.3 (July 1991)]

"Will Kentucky Coal Go Down the Chute With the Oil Companies?" [published in
Kentucky Coal Journal, March 1986]

[Box: 72, Folder: 15]

iii GOVERNMENT TESTIMONY

Scope and Content Note:

[in chronological order]

House Bill Number 401, House of Representatives, Frankfort, Kentucky, March 1, 1960

[Box: 73, Folder: 1]

Before the North Central Field Committee, Department of the Interior, Whitesburg, Kentucky, May 13, 1964

[Box: 73, Folder: 2]

Before the Senate Committee on Public Works on the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1964, June 24, 1964

[Box: 73, Folder: 3]

Delivered at White House Conference on Natural Beauty, Panel on Reclamation of the Landscape, May 23, 1965

[Box: 73, Folder: 4]

Testimony before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources, General Assembly, Commonwealth of Kentucky, January 20, 1966

[Box: 73, Folder: 5]

Draft before the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations, Commission on Balanced Economic Development, June 12, 1967

[Box: 73, Folder: 6]

Before the U.S. Senate Special Sub-Committee on Manpower and Poverty, Neon, Kentucky, February 14, 1968

[Box: 73, Folder: 7]

Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, April 30, 1968

[Box: 73, Folder: 8]

Before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, Fleming, Kentucky, September 12, 1969

[Box: 73, Folder: 9]

"A Plea for a National Policy on Surface Mining." Before the Sub-Committee on Mines and Mining, House of Representatives, United States Congress, October 1971

[Box: 73, Folder: 10]

Before the Sub-Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources, Denver, Colorado, June 20, 1972

[Box: 73, Folder: 11]

Before the Governor's Council on Educational Reform, University of Kentucky, December 12, 1984

[Box: 73, Folder: 12]

iv LECTURES AND SPEECHES

Scope and Content Note:

[in chronological order]

"The Tiger in Our Streets." [delivered to Soil Conservation District Banquet, Whitesburg, Kentucky] March 22, 1963

[Box: 73, Folder: 13]

"Eastern Kentucky--Its Present Plight and Its Future Promise." [before the faculties of the Southeast Center of the University of Kentucky and the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Bell County] September 2, 1963

"Conservation: The New Imperative." [delivered at the Garden Club of Louisville Zone VII Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky] October 2, 1969

"Are Capitalism and the Conservation of a Decent Environment Compatible?" [delivered at the Seminar on Basic Issues in the Environmental Crisis, School of Forestry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut] April 1, 1970

"Pitfalls in a Coal-Fired World." [delivered at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky] November 11, 1981

"Medical Malingering and the Public Purse." [delivered at the Albert B. Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky] October 13, 1982

[Box: 75, Folder: 19]

"The Dreadful Choice." [delivered at United Nations Day Celebrations, Frankfort, Kentucky] October 24, 1982; and to the Bluegrass Chapter, Kentucky Soil Conservation Administration, Lexington, Kentucky] December 3, 1982

[Box: 75, Folder: 20]

"Coal--The Pall in the Panacea." [delivered to the Kentucky Chapter of the Sierra Club, Shakertown, near Harrodsburg, Kentucky] December 4, 1982

[Box: 75, Folder: 21]

Untitled [delivered at Montgomery County High School, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky] June 13, 1983

"Kentucky at the Crossroads." [delivered at Letcher County Clean Community Program, Whitesburg, Kentucky] November 12, 1987

"John C.C. Mayo." [delivered at Blackey Public Library, Letcher County High School, Whitesburg Public Library, etc.; Caudill was scheduled for five appearances between March 28-April 1, 1988; the series was sponsored by Appalshop.]

"Uncivilized People Cause Most Woes: Splendid Opportunities at Hand." [delivered to the Kentucky Association for Community Action, Hazard, Kentucky] June 21, 1990

[Box: 76, Folder: 17]

"Appalachian Kentucky and Its Great Out-Migration of Highly Successful People." [delivered at Hazard Community College, Hazard, Kentucky] September 4, 1990

[Box: 76, Folder: 18]

Untitled [delivered to the American Medical Association] N.d

[Box: 76, Folder: 19]

v FOREWORDS, AFTERWORDS, AND EPILOGUES

Scope and Content Note:

[includes both manuscript and published versions]

Epilogue to
Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smokey Mountains by Edward Abbey [manuscript only; published 1970]

[Box: 77, Folder: 1]

Foreword to
The Great Appalachian Sperm Bank and Other Writings by Bill Best [manuscript and 1986 published version]

[Box: 77, Folder: 2]

Afterword to reissue of
Bloody Ground by John Day [manuscript only; published 1981]

[Box: 77, Folder: 3]

Foreword to
The Dreadful Month by Carlton Jackson [manuscript only; published 1982]

[Box: 77, Folder: 4]

Foreword to
The Federal Government in Appalachia by James Branscome [1977 published version only]

[Box: 77, Folder: 5]

Foreword to
Stinking Creek by John Fetterman [manuscript only; published 1967]

[Box: 77, Folder: 6]

Foreword to
Yesterday's People by Jack Weller [manuscript, printer's proofs, and 1965 published version]

[Box: 77, Folder: 7]

vi BOOK REVIEWS

Scope and Content Note:

[includes manuscripts and published versions of reviews by Caudill in alphabetical order by title]

All That Is Native and Fine: Politics of Culture in an American Region by David E. Whisnant [manuscript and published version in
Louisville Courier-Journal, February 5, 1984]

[Box: 77, Folder: 8]

Appalachia and America: Autonomy and Regional Dependence edited by Allen Batteau [manuscript and published version in
Georgia Historical Quarterly, c. 1983]

[Box: 77, Folder: 9]

Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920 by Henry D. Shapiro [manuscript and published version,
Journal of American History, December 1979]

[Box: 77, Folder: 10]

The Care of the Earth by Russell Lord [published version in
Louisville Courier-Journal, December 2, 1962].

[Box: 77, Folder: 11]

The Children of Crisis (Vols. 2 and 3) by Robert Coles [manuscript and published version in
New York Times Book Review, March 9, 1972]

[Box: 77, Folder: 12]

Clean Coal/Dirty Air by Bruce A. Ackerman and William T. Hassler [manuscript, c. 1981; written for
Louisville Courier-Journal]

[Box: 77, Folder: 13]

Coal Mining Health and Safety in West Virginia by J. David McAteer [manuscript and published version in
Blue-tail Fly, c. December 1970]

[Box: 77, Folder: 14]

Coaltown Revisited: An Appalachian Notebook by Bill Peterson [manuscript and published version in
New York Times Book Review, May 7, 1972]

[Box: 77, Folder: 15]

Death and the Mines by Brit Hume [manuscript and published version in
New York Times Book Review, December 2, 1971]

[Box: 77, Folder: 16]

Eastern Kentucky: A Pictorial History by Stuart Sprague [published version in
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Winter 1987]

[Box: 77, Folder: 17]

Everything in Its Path by Kai T. Erikson [manuscript and published version in
The Nation, March 5, 1977]

Forth To The Wilderness: The First American Frontier, 1754-1774 by Dale Van Every [published version in
Louisville Courier-Journal, July 9, 1961]

[Box: 77, Folder: 20]

The Great Coalfield War by George S. McGovern and Leonard F. Futtridge [manuscript, printer's proofs, and published version in
New York Times Book Review, September 21, 1972)

[Box: 77, Folder: 21]

Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields by Members of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners [manuscript, printer's proofs, and published version in
New York Times Book Review, November 19, 1970]

[Box: 77, Folder: 22]

The Hollow by Bill Surface [manuscript and published version in
Boston Herald Traveler Book Guide, March 21, 1971]

[Box: 77, Folder: 23]

John C.C. Mayo: Cumberland Capitalist by Carolyn Clay Turner and Carolyn Hay Traum [manuscript and published version in
Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 59, no. 3 (1985)]

[Box: 77, Folder: 24]

The Kentucky Trace by Harriette Simpson Arnow [manuscript, c. 1984]

[Box: 77, Folder: 25]

Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Mines, 1880-1920 by David A. Corbin [manuscript, printer's proofs, and published version in
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, April 1983]

Men in Crisis: A Study of a Mine Disaster by Rex A. Lucas [manuscript and published version in
Washington Post Book World, November 23, 1969]

[Box: 77, Folder: 28]

Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930 by Ronald D. Eller [manuscript and published version in
Louisville Courier-Journal, August 21, 1983]

[Box: 77, Folder: 29]

Most Splendid of Men: Life in a Mining Community, 1917-1925 by Harold Brown [manuscript, c. 1981]

[Box: 77, Folder: 30]

A Place of Power by Walt Anderson [manuscript, c. 1976]

[Box: 77, Folder: 31]

Rebel Raider: The Life of John Hunt Morgan by James A. Ramage [published version in
Filson Club History Quarterly, October 1987]

[Box: 77, Folder: 32]

Reclaiming the American Dream by Richard Cornuelle [manuscript; written for
New York Herald Tribune, Christmas edition, 1965]

[Box: 77, Folder: 33]

Rural Community in the Appalachian South by Patricia Duane Beaver [manuscript and published version in
Filson Club History Quarterly, October 1987]

[Box: 77, Folder: 34]

Since Silent Spring by Frank Graham, Jr. [published version in
Boston Herald Traveler Book Guide, February 15, 1970]

[Box: 77, Folder: 35]

Terracide: America's Destruction of Her Living Environment by Ron Linton [manuscript and published version in
Boston Herald Traveler Book Guide, April 12, 1970]

[Box: 77, Folder: 36]

To the Bright and Shining Sea by James Lee Burke [manuscript only, c. August 7, 1970]

[Box: 77, Folder: 37]

Welcome the Traveler Home: Jim Garland's Story of the Kentucky Mountains edited by Julie S. Ardery [manuscript and published version in
Filson Club History Quarterly, 1982]

[Box: 77, Folder: 38]

Who Owns Appalachia?: Land Ownership and Its Impact by the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force [pre-publication version probably written as reader for University Press of Kentucky, c. 1981-82, and post-publication manuscript also written for University Press of Kentucky, c. September 1983]

[Box: 77, Folder: 39]

vii MISCELLANEOUS

Scope and Content Note:

Contains manuscripts for which publication information was not verifiable.

i Poetry

N.d

[Box: 78, Folder: 1]

ii Unidentified Manuscripts

Scope and Content Note:

[in alphabetical order]

"The Appalachiazation of America." c. April 1983 [probably written for periodical publication]

[Box: 78, Folder: 2]

"Justice in the Feud Country." [an article possibly submitted to
American Heritage in 1969]

"The Universities Vote For Yesterday." c. 1980s [probably written as letter to the editor]

Untitled. c. mid 1960s [Caudill's note on manuscript indicates this was written for
Public Affairs Magazine; however, extensive searching did not verify publication]

[Box: 78, Folder: 10]

Untitled. N.d. [probably written for periodical publication]

[Box: 78, Folder: 11]

Untitled. N.d. [probably written for periodical publication]

[Box: 78, Folder: 12]

"Where the Buck Stops." c. 1972-1973 [probably written as a letter to the editor]

[Box: 78, Folder: 13]

VI RESEARCH MATERIALS

Scope and Content Note:

These were the only research or background materials, besides the more complete Subject Files (Box 6-32), initially deposited by the Caudills. Most of the documents have some relationship to a manuscript which is noted. For a more extensive collection of research materials used by the Caudills, see the separate sections, "Appalachian Research Files" Box 90-105, which were added subsequently to the materials listed below.

[General] February 13, 1979-December 9, 1982

[General] January 11, 1983-February 1989; N.d

LaViers Diary; c. 1863 [re: Thomas and James LaViers; James was grandfather of Harry LaViers, President of South East Coal Company. A copy of this document was given to Caudill around 1989 from the LaViers family, and an edited version was published in the
Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 65, no. 3 (July 1991)]

[Box: 80, Folder: 2]

Lists of books and of book-sellers [c. 1980s]

[Box: 80, Folder: 3]

Mineral owning corporations; December 8, 1889-August 22, 1990

[Box: 80, Folder: 4]

Night Comes to the Cumberlands; September 13, 1962

[Box: 80, Folder: 5]

Theirs Be the Power General; c. 1981, N.d

[Box: 80, Folder: 6]

Theirs Be the Power Bill Sturgill; April 10, 1961-May 1982

[Box: 80, Folder: 7]

VII NON-PRINT PROJECTS

i GENERAL

Scope and Content Note:

Caudill was involved with a number of documentary films and television and radio programs. He was interviewed for many of these, and for others, he either served as a consultant, a contact person, or a "guide" to show the production crew around eastern Kentucky. Most of these programs were about strip mining and other environmental concerns, poverty, and economic development of the region. Caudill was also interviewed by KET (Kentucky Educational Television) on several occasions, one of which was on February 17, 1977. During this hour long program, he was honored as a "Distinguished Kentuckian."

May 5, 1961-March 28, 1967

February 1, 1968-December 1, 1977

[Box: 81, Folder: 2]

February 22, 1978-August 28, 1990; N.d

[Box: 81, Folder: 3]

ii FILM PROPOSALS BASED ON CAUDILL'S WORK

i Dark Hills To Westward

Scope and Content Note:

David H. Vowell of the Genesis Concern obtained movie rights and wrote a 127-page script: "The Saga of Jennie Wiley." However, the actual production never materialized. This folder contains the script and correspondence concerning the film proposal.

September 28, 1977-January 14, 1981

[Box: 81, Folder: 4]

ii Night Comes to the Cumberlands

Scope and Content Note:

Over the years, several parties were interested in making this book into a documentary film. David H. Vowell of the Genesis Concern obtained movie rights, but the film was never made. This folder contains correspondence concerning the various proposals.

October 7, 1963-Setember 28, 1977

[Box: 81, Folder: 5]

iii OTHER SCRIPTS

Scope and Content Note:

[in chronological order]

"The Crusader." [taped on June 27, 1965, this hour long program is a portrait of Caudill screened in England; produced by BBC as part of the "Inside America Series"]

[Box: 81, Folder: 6]

"To Regain a Lost Paradise." [taped on October 11, 1970, this hour long program appeared on the series "Studio One," Voice of America; produced by the U.S. Information Agency]

"Appalachia: The Dismal Land." in
Poverty: Views From the Left. New York: Morrow, 1968, pp. 264-273 [edited version from
Dissent, November-December 1967]

[Box: 83, Folder: 4]

"Appalachia: The Wasteland." in
States Rights Vs. Federal Power: Which Is in the People's Best Interest? New York: Scholastic, 1968, pp. 62-64 [excerpts from "Misdeal in Appalachia,"
Atlantic, June 1965]

[Box: 84, Folder: 1]

"Misdeal in Appalachia." in
The Unity of Prose: From Description to Allegory. New York: Harper & Row, 1968, pp. 76-84 [from
Atlantic, June 1965]

[Box: 84, Folder: 2]

"Night Comes to the Cumberlands." in
Children and Poverty. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1968, p. 235 [excerpt from p. 287]

[Box: 84, Folder: 2]

"The Permanent Poor: The Lesson of Eastern Kentucky." in
Man Against Poverty: World War III. New York: Random House, 1968, pp. 118-128 [from
Atlantic, June 1964]

"The Law in a Rural Setting." in
Crime and the Legal Process. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969, pp. 330-336 [excerpt from
Night Comes to the Cumberlands]

[Box: 84, Folder: 4]

"Night Comes to the Cumberlands." in
Readings in Citizen Politics: Studies of Political Behavior. Chicago: Markham, 1969, pp. 189-213 [excerpts from pp. 325-341 and 352-361]

[Box: 84, Folder: 5]

"Paradise is Stripped." in The
Fabric of Democracy (2d ed.). New York: Reinhold, 1969, pp. 338-346 [from
New York Times Magazine, March 13, 1966]

[Box: 84, Folder: 5]

"Rape of the Appalachians: The 1950s." in
American Society, Inc.: Studies of the Social Structure and Political Economy of the U.S. Chicago: Markham, 1970, pp. 186-204 [excerpts from
Night Comes to the Cumberlands, pp. 305-316 and 325-332]

"Are Capitalism and the Conservation of a Decent Environment Compatible?" in
Agenda for Survival: The Environmental Crisis--2. New York: Yale University Press, 1971, pp. 165-18-3 [based on a lecture delivered at Yale School of Forestry, April 1, 1970 and funded by the Ford Foundation]

"Appalachia: The Path From Disaster." in
America's Energy. New York: Pantheon, 1980, pp. 33-37 [from
The Nation, March 9, 1964]

[Box: 89, Folder: 4]

"Unsafe in Any Mine--The Story of Big Black Mountain." in
The Business Reader. New York: Pilgrim, 1983, pp. 82-91 [reprint of "Manslaughter in a Coal Mine,"
The Nation, April 23, 1977; article has been somewhat edited]

[Box: 89, Folder: 4]

"The Subculture of a Depressed Area." in
The Child and Society (4th ed.). New York: Random House, 1984, pp. 96-101 [brief excerpts from
Night Comes to the Cumberlands and
The Watches of the Night]

X APPALACHIAN RESEARCH FILES

Scope and Content Note:

The bulk of these folders contains copies of articles acquired by Caudill from the University of Kentucky libraries while he was a professor in the history department. Some student papers are also included in this section. The folder titles are those assigned by the Caudills. Photographs originally in these files have been added to the Caudills' Photograph Collection (PA91M2).